Ibook clamshell battery issue

Here's my issue: I was given a blue clamshell ibook to "fix" for a friend of mine who wants to use it to only surf the internet. They couldn't get it to turn on, it gave them a weird message and come to find out they had had it for a year and hadn't turned it on so the battery didn't charge. So I kept it plugged in and ended up having to reinstall the os 9.2 system, but then the battery wouldn't keep a charge, but the system would work when it was plugged in. So I ordered a battery off of ebay that said it was a "new" battery. I popped out the old battery and put in the new battery yesterday after getting it in the mail and I now have a "red X" over the battery and it said the system had reset to 1904. So I fixed the date and shut it down, but left the computer plugged in overnight but when I turned it on this morning it still had the red x, so I've left it plugged in turned the computer over, took out the battery and put it back in and restarted, but still the red x and nothing. So I'm thinking either their is a reset battery button I don't know about or the battery I got from ebay is bad even though they said it was new. Any help would be appreciated.

The iBook does not have a PRAM battery,
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25911?viewlocale=en_US
so if your main battery doesn't hold a charge your date/time settings are lost.
If your iBook is connected to the internet you can automatically synchronize the Date/time settings with the apple server: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Date & Time.

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